Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1882 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The aggregate clearings reported by twenty-five clearing-houses for the week ending Nov. 28 reached the stupendous sum of •1,553,799,998. This was an increase of more than •300,000,000 over ths previous week, and has rarely, if ever, baen equaled in the history of the American financial world. Fourteen lives were lost by the sinking of the French steamer Cambronne, in the English Channel... .Fourteen person* were killed and many wounded by the fall of a train through a bridge at Fyvle, Scotland. Dennis Field, one of the jurymen who found a verdict of guilty against Hynes for murder, was passing along one of the main thoroughfares of Dublin at. noon. A car containing two men drove rapidly up, and one of the men jumped off and stabbed Field several times with a sword, inflicting injuries which are expected to result fatally. It is believed that the murderers of Cox, the detective, were lying in wait for a party of Judges who had been dining toS ether in Mountjoy Square. Several arrests ave been made in connection with the affair. A mob attacked the Jervis Street Hospital, where Dolan, the murderer of Cox, was being treated. The crowd was dispersed by the police and the hospital guarded.... ’Gambetta accidentally shot himself in the hand at Paris. Baron Manteuffel, the Prussian statesman, died at the age or 77.... .The Russian police have arrested 180 students for revolutionary demonstrations. Troops fired into a gathering at Kazan University, and killed three. Near Newburg, N. ¥., a train on the Lehigh and Hudson railroad was wreked. The engineer and fireman were scalded to death under the debris.... .The body cf Dr. Lorenzo Ehrhart, of Allegheny City, Pa., was cremated at Washington, Pa., the process of incineration occupying two hours. The doctor was an earnest advocate of cremation as a means of disposing of the dead, and made arrangements in his will accordingly. Two boys of Mrs. Nash; of St. Louis, whose complexions are decidedly dark, were recently sent home from a public school as being of the negro race. The mother, a lady movin'? in good society, has previously proven that she is a Caucasian, but admits a litt e Indian blood flows in her veins. Some of her children are blondes. She is determined 1 o contest the case in the courts.... F ewbauer & Sons, o Milwaukee, one of the leading clothing firms of that city, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Depreciation in stock, indorsing for friends and the alleged peculations of a trusted employe are assigned as reasons for the failure, that it is feared will be followed by others.... Frank James was taken from the jail at Independence to Kansas City, and arraigned • in the Criminal Court, waere he pleaded not gu Ity to the robbery of the Independence Bank and the murder of Detective Wit ’.her. His iria was sen for Jan. 22, an I he was taken back to Independence by the evening train. Ex-Attorney General McVEAGHhas made public a letter addressed by him to President Arthur just before his retirement from the Cabinet In this letter Mr. MacVeagh insists upon the acceptance of his resignation, and gives his reasons for declining to reconsider it He states that President Garfield became satisfied early in his administration of the enormity of the star-) out® iniquities and was earnest in season and out of season to get to the bottom of the cases and secure the punishment of the guilty. The day before President Garfield was shot he directed Mr. MacVeagh to offer Mr. Riddle the District Attorneysriip, but this arrangement was prevented by the assassin's bullet Colgate Hoyt, of New York,has been appoin ed by President Arthur Government Director of the Union Pacific Rai road, vice Spencer, removed....Aven Pearson, of Chicago, was appointed Superintendent of the Congreuional Record, to succeed Helm, removed. Gen. Henry L. Hazen, Chief of the Sipnal Service, predicts that the coming winter will be a mild one. His prediction is based upon a thorough examinat on of all indications in possession of the signal office. Mr. Hazen, in making th s prediction, disregards the as'ertion of. meteorologists that a cool summer is invariably followed by a cold and stormy winter.